AU Meme - Day 16 - Superheroes

[redfiona99]

To an extent, this is the inverse of the mundane AU. You're less likely to see superhero AUs nowadays when half to three-quarter of characters in the largest fandoms are superheroes, because they cease to be AUs.

I mean, of my big fandoms, it's superheroes and mutants, or Dr Who/Torchwood and Buffy which is not far enough away from superpowered (time travel, immortality, slayers, vampires and witches) for me to not count them as superheroes, or wrestlers. And I am trying not to give Chris Jericho more ideas.

What I do remember is a really cool fic exchange / theme / thinger that I think Penknife ran which was X-men with different powers. So many of those fics really explored how much of the various mutant's personalities was them, their powers, and how their powers had shaped their lives. [Unfortunately can't remember the author but there was a truly stupendous Jean and Scott fic where they'd been born with each other's powers that I can still visualise chunks of.] [There were several excellent fics in that exchange thingy but that one was extra special.]

(Writing this has made me ponder a Rogue n Gambit power switch. I presume you are imagining the same Remy "Ladykiller" LeBeau that I am. And he leans even more heavily into either Louis du Lac or Lestat, depending which way you want to take the character.)



Day 1 - Hogwarts - Meta
Day 2 - Zombies
Day 3 - Medieval
Day 4 - Spies
Day 5 - School
Day 6 - Mythical Creature
Day 7 - Fairy Tale
Day 8 - Futuristic
Day 9 - Aliens
Day 10 - Fusion with another fandom
Day 11 - Slice-of-life
Day 12 - Deserted Island
Day 13 - Buddy Cops/Detective
Day 14 - Allegiance-Swap Original instructions say bad guys are good guys and vice versa
Day 15 - Sex-Swap

Day 16 - Superheroes
Day 17 - Animal Transformation
Day 18 - Wild West
Day 19 - Idols/Bands
Day 20 - Trading Places
Day 21 - Fantasy
Day 22 - Horror
Day 23 - Pre-21st Century
Day 24 - Apocalypse/Dystopia
Day 25 - Time travel
Day 26 - Dopplegangers
Day 27 - Twins
Day 28 - Cross Over
Day 29 - Pirates A bit more of the Jericho/Regal with Barrett lurking fic for Opera
Day 30 - Crossover